Author: John Merlino
Date: 21:41:48 09/20/03
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On September 20, 2003 at 20:04:57, stuart taylor wrote: >On September 20, 2003 at 19:33:45, John Merlino wrote: > >>On September 20, 2003 at 18:59:45, stuart taylor wrote: >> >>>This book rates its chess problems (mainly from actual games) as 1-5 in >>>difficulty rating, the easiest being 1. >>>If you want to know what I really think, I would tell you that there are other >>>such books where the most difficult poblems in the book are perhaps equivalent >>>to the number one of Nunns book. >>>One or two books of chess problems by Raymond Keene, the most difficult one are >>>probably easier than the very easiest of Nunns, and Ray Keenes book was not not >>>written for beginners either. >>> >>>What I did... I marked all the problems which are rated (when you look into >>>"hints") 1, and am doing those first. >>>I really don't know how they are considered as being so easy. There could well >>>be 4 or 5 levels easier, before that level, with reasonable things to have to >>>solve. >>>S.Taylor >> >>Could you tell us what the first puzzle in the book is, please? And, if it isn't >>rated a 1, what is its rating? >> >>jm > >I've never yet succeeded in making a diagram come up here. I suppose I should! I >also don't know what's special about the "first" puzzle in the book. Is it a way >that you can identif which book it is? >Anyway, I was hoping that many people here are familiar with it. >S.Taylor The way to get a diagram to come up is to put a "[D]" at the beginning of a line, followed by a Forsythe representation of the board. Here's an example: [D]2kr4/K1pp4/8/8/8/8/7Q/3R4 w Mate in two. Does this look like the first puzzle? jm
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